Antique Print of Cape Horn, Tierra Del Fuego Archipelago of Southern Chile

Name: Antique Print of Cape Horn, Tierra Del Fuego Archipelago of Southern Chile
Brand: Meyer
SKU: BG-10104
Price: 135 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: circa 1850
Maker: Meyer
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 14 × 23.2 cm (5.5 × 9.1 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Minor wear and soiling, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Places: Chile
Reference: BG-10104

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Cape Horn in a gale, an original steel engraving from Meyer's Universum, published by the Bibliographisches Institut around 1850. The sheet is lettered "Cap Horn" below the image, with the imprint of the Kunstanstalt of the Bibliographisches Institut at the lower margin.

A dismasted sailing ship lies broken at the center, listing in heavy surf, with rowing boats pulling away from the wreck and a man in the foreground boat waving for help. Beyond the waves rises the dark headland of the cape under a sky of storm clouds with a bright break in the center, and a pointed peak stands at the left. Birds are visible in the upper right.

Cape Horn is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, located on the small Hornos Island. Meyer's Universum, the "world in pictures" on steel engravings, was published between 1833 and 1861 in 17 volumes in 12 languages with some 80,000 subscribers across Europe.

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